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Subject(s)

• Human ecology—Oregon—Klamath Marsh National Wildlife Refuge—Philosophy [Browse]
• Human ecology—Religious aspects [Browse]
• Marsh ecology—Oregon—Klamath Marsh National Wildlife Refuge [Browse]
• Philosophy of nature—Oregon—Klamath Marsh National Wildlife Refuge [Browse]
• Klamath Marsh National Wildlife Refuge (Or.)—Environmental conditions [Browse]
• Klamath Basin (Or.)—Environmental conditions [Browse]

Series

Environmental arts and humanities series [More in this series]

Summary note

• ""In order to accept the enormous responsibility that comes of being in the world, we must first conceive, in spite of all the obstacles, the state of actually being the world." It is for this reason that John R. Campbell came to the Klamath marshes, a wetland in southern Oregon formed by three ancient, shallow lakes, a vast emptiness that is paradoxically home to an amazing diversity of life, of untold thousands of birds both migratory and resident, of all the interconnected life forms that make up one of North America's richest natural environments."
• "Absence and Light is Campbell's account of his exploration of the marshes and a meditation on the world he found there, on his growing understanding of the physical, emotional, moral, and aesthetic meaning of that world, on his own growth as a man. Through Campbell's eyes, we observe the stirring and astonishing beauty of the marshes and their creatures, and the utter poignancy of their fragility before the heedless ambitions of humankind." "This is nature writing at its most profound and moving, writing that in examining and defining the world of nature helps us to understand the very complicated and contradictory realities of being human. Campbell's luminous descriptions and mystical insights will long linger in the reader's memory."--Cover.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references (p. [139]-[141]).

Contents

• Absences: exhausted from driving and from lingering grief
• Presences: imagine releasing seventeen mallards
• Intimacy: narcissus, there are three persons.

ISBN

• 0874174961 ((hardcover ; : alk. paper))
• 9780874174960 ((hardcover ; : alk. paper))

LCCN

2001008687

OCLC

48711073

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